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Everyone knows the Elvis story, but what’s less known is the story of the Black women singers and musicians who forged the way.
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Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
Rapper YG, center in white, at a June 7 protest over the death of George Floyd.
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Rap songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches over the killing of George Floyd. But the history of Black American music as a form of protest dates back to the 19th century.
Senegal’s singer Ismael Lo performs during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) in Algeria in 2009.
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Pan-African festival marked the emergence of a post-imperial world
Kendrick Lamar performing in Portugal.
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Music is an underutilised tool when it comes to steering curricula away from strictly Western and colonial models.
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Explorations of form and sound in jazz are essentially political. They challenge the status quo in society by interrogating categories and barriers.